As he admitted it wasn't something he had tried before, Penelope wasn't very surprised. There were very few peasants that could read and write so even finding a way to learn or be taught would likely have been difficult—although she recalled that Hazel was able to, she doubted the herbalist had the patience for teaching. And of course, since he didn't feel the need to learn, it wasn't a priority to figure out a way to learn. 

When he agreed to learn, Penelope smiled eagerly. She didn't really care about Crow being illiterate but she was still excited to try and teach him it. It was nice to share a skill with him, even if it wouldn't be overly useful to him. "Alright... Just know it takes a while to learn so these books probably won't be too useful to us right now." she told him. The knight stepped out of his embrace and swept her gaze over the library as she looked for the blank sheets of paper. Since it was the viceroy's room, she assumed that they must keep blank scrolls and paper for letters somewhere.

Her gaze fell on a small basket on one of the middle shelves and stepped over to it. Looking inside, she grinned as she found a small assortment of blank paper and scrolls along with a couple closed up jars of ink. She grabbed a small stack of paper, a quill and one ink jar before turning back to Crow. "Luckily, it seems like they had everything in here that we needed." she said and reached for his hand with her free hand. Giving his hand a fond squeeze, she lead the way over to the table and set the items down before gesturing for him to take a seat in the chair before pulling up one for herself from the dining table. 

Settling in next to him, she grabbed a piece of paper and opened up the jar of ink. "I barely even know where to start.." she admitted thoughtfully a she dipped the quill into the ink and looked down at the blank page. The knight tried to recall what some of the first steps in her education were. However, that was so long ago, most of it was hard to remember. Deciding to just start with the alphabet, she began to write out each letter from a to z, falling into a brief silence. 

As she finished she turned to Crow and gave him a small smile. "So for starters, this is every letter in order." she explained. "You'll probably be able to start recognizing them and how they sound pretty quickly... Like.. Let's see.. Give me a word. Any word and I'll show you how to spell it with these."